Artiopoda - Asaphida - Nileidae

Full reference: M. Ghobadi Pour. 2006. Early Ordovician (Tremadocian) trilobites from Simeh-Kuh, eastern Alborz, Iran. Studies in Palaeozoic paleontology 93-118

Parent taxon: Nileidae according to M. Ghobadi Pour 2006

Sister taxa: Aocaspis, Barrandia, Berkutaspis, Borthaspidella, Bumastides, Elongatanileus, Homalopteon, Illaenopsis, Kodymaspis, Lakaspis, Neopsilocephalina, Nileidae stenorhachis, Nileus, Parabarrandia, Paraperaspis, Peraspis, Petrbokia, Platypeltoides, Poronileus, Psilocephalinella, Shenjiawania, Symphysurus, Varvia

Subtaxa: Vachikaspis insueta

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Type: Vachikaspis insueta

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Simeh-Kuh section, B-4 (Ordovician of Iran)

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